Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: Permission denied to access property '_w_'

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 7481

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Just ran my normal tests and it fails on the first click with the following error:

Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: Permission denied to access property '_w_'
[remote server] https://assets.insnw.net/instart/js/week-124-0/image_streaming/instart.js:83:in
`e</g.prototype.yi'
[remote server] https://assets.insnw.net/instart/js/week-124-0/image_streaming/instart.js:84:in
`e</g.prototype.Rc'
[remote server] https://assets.insnw.net/instart/js/week-124-0/image_streaming/instart.js:170:in
`a.addEventListener'
[remote server] https://assets.insnw.net/instart/js/week-124-0/image_streaming/instart.js:106:in
`a.X/a<'

Selenium version: 2.41.0
OS: OSX 10.9.3
Browser: FF
Browser version: 28.0

Our automation tests run without any issues in all environments except this new one
that uses instart CDN.

Reported by uscengineer on 2014-06-13 23:24:49

[lukeis]

I tried selenium 2.42.0 and FF v29 and it has the same issue.

Reported by uscengineer on 2014-06-15 22:12:51

[lukeis]

Please provide a complete sample page and a complete executable scenario to reproduce
the issue.

Reported by barancev on 2014-06-17 12:28:08

• Status changed: NeedsClarification
• Labels added: Browser-Firefox

[lukeis]

Without a reproducible test case we cannot fix this problem.

Reported by andreas.tolf.tolfsen on 2014-06-18 12:55:53

• Status changed: Invalid

[lukeis]

Here is an example:

require 'watir-webdriver'
b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox
b.goto 'https://www.honest.com'
b.div(:class => 'modal-user-registration-fullscreen-content').button(:data_dismiss
=> 'modal').click

One way around it is to catch the exception and retry the action. This seems to work.
Unfortunately it is too big of an effort to do this type of thing for all of our scripts
since it happens in many locations in too many scripts.

Reported by uscengineer on 2014-06-23 07:59:13

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2014-06-23 10:36:22

• Status changed: New

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2014-06-23 21:38:22

• Status changed: Accepted
• Labels removed: Status-Untriaged

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 17:47:02

• Labels added: Restrict-AddIssueComment-Commit